The Distant Chase by Cap Daniels

Author:Cap Daniels [Daniels, Cap]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781732302471
Publisher: Anchor Watch Publishing, L.L.C.
Published: 2019-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Kat Nap

The red glow of the bulb above Norikova’s head cast strange shadows across her perfect features.

“Kat,” she said.

“What?”

“I would like for you to call me Kat. I will not run. I will fight, but I will fight for my life and not for yours.”

I squinted against the red glow. “I think it’s safe to say our lives are inextricably linked right now. We probably can’t overcome whatever is waiting for us without your help, and you’ll never survive the night without ours. So, Kat, don’t make me shoot you.”

I pulled the two keys from my pocket and handed one to Clark. After unlocking Kat’s shackles and handcuffs, she rubbed at her wrists and stretched her legs. To create the illusion that she was still bound, we laced the restraints loosely back around her ankles and wrists, taking every advantage we could get.

We’d been in the air for almost ninety minutes. I wasn’t afraid of a fight, but I didn’t like walking into an ambush outmanned, outgunned, and with no support. That’s when it occurred to me that we weren’t completely without backup—Skipper and Ginger were just a sat-phone call away.

Ensuring the pilots couldn’t see what I was doing, I powered up my phone, and just like E.T., I phoned home. It would take several seconds for the call to go through, but Ginger would immediately know we weren’t on a boat when she tracked the call. No boat on the Baltic Sea would be traveling at two miles per minute like our helicopter, and it certainly wouldn’t be headed through the Finnish wilderness.

After pressing the call button, I felt the chopper begin to descend, and I shoved the phone deep into the interior pocket of my coat. Ginger and Skipper wouldn’t be able to hear what was happening, but they could track my position as long as the battery lasted.

The skids of the chopper touched the ground, and the rotors spun to a stop. One of the pilots removed his helmet. “Dobro pozhalovat’ v Ruhnu.”

Welcoming us to Ruhnu was a nice addition to the charade, but I doubted the pilot expected us to believe he’d taken us where we wanted to be.

“Spasibo,” I said as I unbuckled my shoulder harness and reached for the door.

“No!” he yelled, and I retracted my hand.

Our arrival was about to turn into a fireworks show, and I hoped us going up in flames wasn’t the grand finale.

I saw Clark reach inside his coat, obviously gearing up for the coming gunfight, so I did the same. The left and right doors of the chopper opened simultaneously, and four men lunged into the cabin, two on each side. Before we could react, Clark and I were in their grasps. One of the men yelled in Finnish, and the second pilot leapt from the cockpit with his pistol trained on Kat’s face, though I didn’t have time to worry about her; I was about to be in the fight of my life.

I heard Clark’s boot make contact with an attacker’s chest, and an instant later, I heard the man hit the ground.

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